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This is correct in that shampoo is NOT soap, but detergent - which is a completely different chemical class. Wash your hair with soap, you get scudgy slime hard to wash out. Wash your hair with a detergent, and the oil is washed away with the dirt.
However, shampoos vary widely in detergent content. Shampoos for "oily hair" are higher in detergent (up to about 9%, IIRC) and will strip away more oil; shampoos for "dry hair" are lower (3-4%?) and, obviously, do less oil removal.
Dawn is much, much higher in percentage - I can't find reliable numbers but I'd guess it's over 75%. After all, it is a "detergent" product designed for use at high dilutions. Anyone who uses a squeeze out of the bottle the way they'd use a shampoo is in for a really substantial oil-stripping, possibly enough to damage hair in a single thorough washing.
If you insist, at least dilute Dawn about 100:1 for hair use. That's about one good squirt in a 12-ounce squirt bottle.
Call me a sucker if you like.....
I'll stick with shampoo for hair, dish detergent for dishes, laundry detergent for clothes, and soap for my body.
I read someplace else recently that in a pinch people will use shampoo and a shower gel, and vice versa.
I never thought about it. And even in a pinch don't think it would occur to me.
So for me, uh, no.
Why not try Mr. Clean or Pine Sol for your bubble bath?
Remember, dish soap will also remove your hair color. Perhaps not all, but quite bit. Use very little of it, or you will struggle with rinsing.
Make sure you put a good conditioner on your hair after you wash it with a detergent.
Call me a sucker if you like.....
I'll stick with shampoo for hair, dish detergent for dishes, laundry detergent for clothes, and soap for my body.
Well, that's two of us, at least...
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I read someplace else recently that in a pinch people will use shampoo and a shower gel, and vice versa.
Body gel is usually soap and will do a very poor job in your hair. However, one my kids routinely used baby shampoo as a body wash, long before such things were common. No real harm there except going through a lot of the stuff.
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Remember, dish soap will also remove your hair color. Perhaps not all, but quite bit. Use very little of it, or you will struggle with rinsing.
Both evidence of using an equal amount of (highly concentrated) dish soap to a usual amount of (far more dilute) shampoo. At similar dilutions, there's no reason Dawn would strip hair color any more than shampoo. (Color-safe shampoos tend to be very low on the detergent percentage, and not much else.)
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Make sure you put a good conditioner on your hair after you wash it with a detergent.
Actually, blue Dawn makes an excellent bubble bath. I have used it for years.
I quit buying shampoo many years ago. SHAMpoo?? No way, demand REAL poo!
I have used bath soap from top to bottom. It works. Dial Gold seems best for me. YMMV, of course.
Go to shower with a bottle of this, and a bottle or that, and a bottle of something else, plus a bar of soap? No, thanks, just the soap will do me fine.
Of course, most of my hair has fallen off my head and gathered on my cheeks and chin, but I kinda like it that way. My wife doesn't mind, either.
I read a tip to use Dawn if your hair color came out darker than you wanted - it helps strip it. Not something I would use on a regular basis - I guess in case of emergency and you have NO shampoo, soap, etc. and grease-ball hair - it would do in a pinch.
there is not much difference between dish soap and shampoo. I'll stick to shampoo though.
My husband always used bar soap on his hair and it came out very nice. Any time I tried it (camping etc) it came out awful.
Everybody's hair is different, and can tolerate different things. Shampoo, I guess, was formatted to be suitable for most pleople's hair. There are also sub-formulations, for specific kinds of hair.
I once asked a hairdresser what is the best thing for washing hair, he said river sand.
Personally, I prefer Mexican bar laundry soap (Zote), very cheap, very pure, works for shave/shower/shampoo. Can't possibly do any harm that can't be fixed by just re-washing with a standard shampoo..
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